PETER Sleep underlined his undoubted class as he produced a second successive stunning performance while deputising for Greenmount.

The former Australian Test player followed up last week's 110 against Horwich with 118 in the 107 run win over Bradshaw.

And as well as that he also repeated last week's haul of half a dozen wickets with 6-37 as Bradshaw were dismissed for 121 in reply to Greenmount's 228-6.

That was not the only individual success of the last weekend of the Bolton League season when all the remaining honours were decided without the need of any play-off games.

Tonge confirmed their position of champions with a 107 run win over Farnworth, who finished joint second with Kearsley. Nigel Partington hit130 not out and Simon Anderton 54 in a Tonge total of 242-2 before Ian Taylor took 5-46 and Sikander 5-62 in Farnworth's modest reply of 135. Kearsley ended with a winning draw over Westhoughton, which also decided the last place in the top four and the final qualifier for next season's Lancashire Knockout competition.

That went to Westhoughton by virtue of the two points they picked up against Kearsley, for whom Steve Davies hit 103 not out and Paul Berry 57 which took both players past the 1,000 run milstone for the season.

Little Lever were edged out as they surprisingly went down to Eagley. A total of 248-4 from the Eagley batsmen did the damage, Mike Ward 100 not out and Dirkie de Vos 57, while Little Lever succumbed to 194 all out, despite Nigel Hallows' 62 and Jason Swift's 68, Steve Shepley taking 5-65.

At least Little Lever's second team earned them some consolation as they won the second team championship, overcoming Eagley seconds' 229-3 by four wickets, Nigel Franklin 132, while Roy Costello hit 68 to reach 1,000 runs. Elsewhere Farworth Social Circle were dismissed for 70, John Smith 5-33 and Bernard Reidy 4-30, in reply to Walkden's 164-8, David Smith 58 and Matthew Parkinson 6-69 while Horwich were all out for 108 in reply to Heaton's 222-9, Chris Sainsbury completing the hat-trick, Mike Bennison hitting 71 and Lee Sutton 47 before taking a superb catch to dismiss Grant Long for 70.

At Astley Bridge, the spirit of the game was missing as Egerton produced a strange looking batting line-up that was dismissed for 109, Steve Foster taking 7-49. Bridge in reply were 110-2.

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